F*ck, Marry, Kill: Gandhi. Martin Luther King Jr. Jesus.

Last time around, editors Jennifer Wright and Ashley Cardiff played a pretty scrappy game of Fuck, Marry, Kill over American literary giants Faulkner, Hemingway and Fitzgerald. Now, their prompt is more offensive. If you are unfamiliar with the game Fuck, Marry, Kill (and yet inexplicably reading a website currently), it’s simple: you must choose among the three names given who to fuck, who to marry, and who to kill. If you do not care for Jennifer and Ashley’s rhetoric, skip their discussion and go to the bottom of the post, where you may cast your vote.

Jennifer: So. Marry Martin Luther King. Fuck Jesus because otherwise he’ll just be washing people’s feet all the time and not really be around a bunch. Kill Gandhi because he’s a weird little diaper baby who beat his wife.

Ashley: Okay, wait. Wasn’t he in arranged marriage? As a kid? Shouldn’t you Google that? This is a tough one because none of them are immediately fuckable.

Jennifer: Wait, you don’t think it would be fun to fuck Jesus? He seems really giving. I think he’d give you a foot massage, too. Like in a weird, erotic, Pulp Fiction way.

Ashley: Jesus would really offer a lot of himself to you, I totally agree. He’d be very giving. SELF-SACRIFICING EVEN.

Googling "sexy Gandhi" was actually a huge disappointment.

Jennifer: But then after the relationship ended you’d be all “why have you forsaken me!?”

Ashley: Or like, “Where’s that chair you promised to build me?!”

Jennifer: Do you know my favorite part of the Bible, and the part that really makes me think “hi, Jesus, fun fuck?’

Ashley: No! But you’re going to tell me!

Jennifer: When Jesus is like “fuck you, fig tree.” I know it’s a metaphor for, umm, spiritual withering, but it also makes me believe that sex with Jesus would be spicy! Also, I don’t like oranges. So we’d have something in common.

Ashley: Look, Jesus might actually be a good catch because, hey, free wine forever. So at least I could drink like a fish and no one could ever call me on my shit because I’m married to the son of man, fuck you.

Also, residuals from all his endorsement deals!

Jennifer: Ashley, they’d crucify you eventually, and you know he’d be off with Dirty Mags.

Ashley: Hm. Well, I think the better candidate for marriage is Dr. King. He has a degree in systematic theology from BU and that’s some pretty outre shit. He and I could stay up late and have long talks about ontological goings on.

Jennifer: I like that. Also, he was a very good dresser. Not to be a shallow, but, totally. Totally someone you would want to stand next to and look good alongside of. Also, God, what an orator.

Ashley: Oh man, I mean, that’s obviously his hottest quality.

Jennifer: I mean, Jesus had his moments too, but he also had his share of “fuck you, fig tree!” moments or moments when he chased moneylenders around like some sort of Loony Toons cartoon. You know what? I’d do better with Jesus. Marry him despite his weird beard. MLK would ultimately be too levelheaded for me.

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Ashley: I think that’s a really rational breakdown. So. Now we have to go to sleep at night dealing with the weight of being Women Who Would Kill Mohandas Gandhi. Why are you such a bitch?

Jennifer: He beat his wife. He may have done great stuff, but he’s obviously the worst choice relationship-wise.

Ashley: No, he was a kid! Also, the reason we know this is because he admitted it in his autobiography! And was ashamed of it. It’s not like he was Gandhi as we know him to be and also just punching women and biting meat off live cows. PEOPLE CHANGE JENNIFER

Jennifer: Has anyone ever done that? Because I want to bring them into next week’s “villain” edition.

What's under this loin cloth?

Ashley: God. I’ll do that. Just run through cow fields, leaping on the backs of animals and biting their spines; screaming “I’M MOHANDAS FUCKING GANDHI” as the blood runs down your face. …Then I’d marry Martin Luther King Jr!

Jennifer: Because of the way you’d have seen a little too much of Gandhi, what with his loincloth lying everyplace given all the leaping?

Ashley: Okay, look. It’s hard to play Fuck Marry Kill with three guys that I think everyone can agree are good. But I think what matters here is MLK dressed really well and Jesus can turn water into wine. Which dovetails nicely with TheGloss’ identity as a site for booze-swilling harpies who like dresses.

Jennifer: A harpy can’t fly on one wing! Is that joke too esoteric?

Ashley: Yeah, I don’t know that. I mean, I’m still weirded out by calling women harpies because I learned about harpies from the totally scarring cartoon version of The Last Unicorn and when I was teenager I’d hear “Harpy” and think, “Does it mean she has 3 tits?” No. No it does not. Saying someone is “like Total Recall” means they have three tits. Or four.

Based on the novel by Peter S Beagle

Jennifer: No, no, harpies are adorable. Maybe they have three breasts. Maybe they have however many breasts they fucking feel like! “A bird can’t fly on one wing” is a 19th century proverb that encouraged people to take another drink. I can’t believe you don’t know that. Because drinks are like…wings.

Ashley: Wow. That’s a good expression.

Jennifer: Yeah, so Jesus, Jesus would give you all the wings. There’s a lot of alcoholism in the Bible and people rarely get called out on it. No one ever tells Noah he needs an intervention.

Ashley: Look, back to Gandhi: he was a vegetarian and referred to sex as “carnal pleasures.” I think that means he’s not a viable candidate for marriage or fucking. So, actually, I just came to terms with having to kill Gandhi. I feel like it would take Gandhi twenty minutes to get your bra off, you know?

We couldn't find any photos of Jesus, so here's a hand drawn portrait of Dan Aykroyd in Ghostbusters.

Jennifer: Oh, and he’d be sitting around wearing a loincloth as he did it. He’d keep leaning over in this awful way and exposing himself and it would just be the worst. THE WORST.

Ashley: Oh my god. Can you imagine attend social obligations with Gandhi and he’d be leaning over to pet a dog and just show brain? Just show nothing but brain?

Jennifer: His spectacles would always be flying off. I couldn’t handle it. Sorry. He has to die. He’ll go gently.

Ashley: So. Now we’re left with two solid guys. One offers limitless wine and cool in-laws. The other has a doctorate in philosophy and can dress like a motherfucker.

Jennifer: I will marry Jesus, fuck MLK. I feel like among other things, Jesus is great with kids.

Ashley: He would go fishing with them and teach them nothing!

Jennifer: And when I become irrationally enraged and am like “I fucking hate you, orange tree” Jesus will curse it for eternity. HELLO LOVE.

Asshole.

Ashley: See, I feel like you fuck Jesus and have a glass of wine after and be done with it. He’s a nice guy. You definitely won’t hate yourself after. But I also like my men a little more dynamic, even selfish. MLK would teach me how to wear a checkered suit and each morning we’d sit down to breakfast and he’d read the newspaper aloud and I would hang on every word.

Jennifer: You always try to marry people who would make you BETTER. Have you noticed that? I always marry people I think I could lollygag around cursing all manner of trees with, laughing, laughing loudly.

Ashley: Hm. Maybe you should marry St Augustine? Or George Washington? Or Hexus! From Fern Gully!

MLK loves obsolete technology.

Jennifer: I’ve never seen any of the movies you are referring to.

Ashley: Okay. You marry Jesus. I hope you get lots of great chairs and benches. I say: fuck Jesus and take his wine. Marry Dr. King and talk about philosophy and menswear forever. Kill Gandhi.

Jennifer: Okay, marry Jesus, because he’s got a warped sense of humor and we’d get along fine. Fuck Martin Luther King because he is very good looking and moral and an excellent orator. Kill Gandhi, because, everything.

If you were to kill Jesus, he’d just come right back! (Well, in three days, but you get the point)

Jennifer Wright

HOW DID NEITHER ONE OF US MAKE THAT JOKE?

Ella Jane

you missed some of the most fucked up and strange things about Ghandi. like how he left his wife in 1908 for Hermann Kallenbach, a Jewish Austrian bodybuilder. and like, wrote him letters about how vaseline and cotton balls reminding him of Kallenbach and enemas and stuff. and he was super into Mussolini and referred to Hitler as “my friend” in letters. oh, and there was his grand-niece who he forced to sleep with him, naked. and the whole total racist thing. he really, really didn’t like black people.

don’t get me wrong, I really admire the movement he founded and all that he achieved, but Gandhi was one fucked up little dude.

rita

in reality, who doesnt want to fuck jesus?? or drink a beer with him, or smoke a dubee with him… he just seems like that type of guy?

BriannaW

I honestly don’t understand how the two of you sat down and decided this was an appropriate topic to write about. You don’t have to be a Christian to know that this would be offensive to so many people. I believe on this very site, you featured an article on how offensive a bathing suit with a depiction of a Hindu goddess was, but you think it’s ok to write an article about having sex with Jesus? In what kind of world is that ok? This is not only extremely disrespectful of you, but also morally inconsistent. The fact that you guys acknowledged that this prompt is offensive should have been a tip-off that you shouldn’t have posted it. Posting this article shows a severe lack of judgment on your part.

Lexie

See, here’s the thing. Jesus doesn’t need an explanation. MLK…Christian minister. Gandhi…attempted to be Christian, but was vetoed by the Church. This post is equally offensive to all three men. It nullifies the offensive-ness.

And I’d fuck Jesus. Obviously.

sharky

@BriannaW

Can you actually not see the difference between A) slapping someone’s God on a bathing suit for profit and B) making light of some historic figures on the internet? Are those two things the same to you? If so, you are dumb.

Have a sense of humor. Jesus wouldn’t want you to be so uptight.

ellie

I agree with BriannaW. This is an embarrassment for theGloss and I don’t think I want to read it anymore.

And @Sharky
Jesus is as much someone’s God as Ganesh, and slapping one on a swimsuit and writing about the other in this style is actually a very similar issue- I don’t think theGloss writers blog for free! Shock articles get more traffic and therefore more revenue, so it is entirely for profit, whether the product is fashion or humour.

@Lexie
It doesn’t nullify the offense. At all.

Rosie

HEXUS!

God Ashely

Ashley Cardiff

He hates trees! He’s perfect for Jen!

Hannah

I miss what the gloss was like a while back. Probably when Ogilvy was writing more. I agree with BriannaW. This article is a little embarrassing.

Magda

To counter act some of the negativity streaming in from certain people, I’d just like to say, I think this article is perfectly in line with the Gloss’ usual stuff. It’s very tongue in cheek, and absurd, if mildly offensive. Which the offensiveness is addressed in the little starting paragraph thing. AND! In the title, so if you feel you are the type of person to be offended, skip it. Funny for some is not funny for all.

That being said… This one was SOOOOO hard for me. But ultimately, I’d marry Jesus, because he’s Jewish (so he probably has money) and he’s a carpenter, and a man who works with his hands is just plain SEXY!

And yes, I just used a blatant stereotype to make my point.

Half Canadian

You know, MLK jr cheated on his wife like nobody’s business. Marry him and resign yourself to a lifetime of STD testing and the inevitable call from a baby mama.

Cate

EXACTLY. And after all that wife-beating business Ghandi later decided that women didn’t enjoy sex, and so he stopped sleeping with his wife. Either he was horrible at sex, or just kind of an asshole in his personal life.

Clearly the only options here are kill Ghandi, fuck MLK, marry Jesus.

AngieS.

Am looking forward to your next FMK article that includes Mohammed.

Jennifer Wright

Mohammed, Zeus and Anubis edition!

Alyssa

You guys are hilarious!

Nancy

I feel like Jesus would be built. Plus, if you had his baby it would be part God.